Research and Insights Archive

Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations

Dave Millner

Dave Millner

Dave Millner has a business (risk/lending) and HR background based in financial services where he was a key internal consultant involved with the research, design and delivery of performance/competency based consultancy solutions for a range of businesses and brands...

Lacey Leone McLaughlin

Lacey Leone McLaughlin

Lacey Leone McLaughlin is a leadership and talent management professional with demonstrated experience in marketing, designing, and delivering cutting-edge consulting services to Global 1000 companies. As an Affiliated Practitioner of Executive Education at the Center...

Soren Kaplan

Soren Kaplan

Soren Kaplan is an award-winning author, former corporate executive, co-founder of Praxie.com, a columnist for Inc. Magazine and Psychology Today, and an affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. He is an...

Beth Gunderson

Beth Gunderson

Beth Gunderson is the Founder of Minikahda Partners, an organization and talent architecture firm specializing in organization design and enterprise transformation initiatives. Beth is also a permanent instructor at the University of Southern California – Center for Effective Organizations – in their Strategic Organization Design Workshop and Adapting to Disruption Workshop.

Gregory S Andriate

Gregory S Andriate

Gregory S Andriate, Ed.D., is Executive Director, Organization Innovation LLC, and partners with clients to revitalize capabilities securing sustainable business value for customers and shareholders. Recent projects include implementation of sustainable growth...

Sharoni Denise Little

Sharoni Denise Little

Dr. Sharoni Denise Little is a global strategist,leading organizational expert, and noted scholar. The CEO of The Strategist Company, LLC, a global boutique advisory company, her clients include corporate, educational, government, and community entities, where she...

Sharna Wiblen

Sharna Wiblen

Research Dr. Sharna Wiblen is a senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations, USC Marshall School of Business. She  is a globally recognized thought leader and award-winning executive educator in talent management, technology, and the future of...

Rami Shani

Rami Shani

Abraham B. (Rami) Shani is Full Professor of Management at the Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University. He has been a visiting Professor at The Stockholm School of Economics, Tel Aviv University and Politecnico Di Milano. His research...

Benjamin Schneider

Benjamin Schneider

Benjamin Schneider is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Maryland where, for many years he was the head of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology program. He was previously with CEB Talent Management Labs from 2003 – 2016. Ben has also taught...

Shreya Sarkar-Barney

Shreya Sarkar-Barney

Dr. Shreya Sarkar-Barney works with organizations to drive people and business outcomes using science and prior-evidence. She has helped firms achieve outcomes such as turning around failing cross-border collaborations and closing revenue gaps. Shreya has championed...

Maritza Salazar

Maritza Salazar

Dr. Maritza Salazar is an Assistant Professor at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. in Management from the Stern School of Business at New York University and then completed a postdoc under the direction of Dr. Eduardo Salas at the...

Christine Porath

Christine Porath

Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She is also a consultant working with leading organizations to help them create a thriving workplace. Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, United...